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Volume 5, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2052-3998
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Abstract

This article sketches Slayer’s phenomenology in close connection with Hegel’s philosophy. It argues that, while the conceptual and teleological distance between the two parts is definitively a very large one, there are also important and rather unusual points of convergence on several topics, religion and war being the most prominent of them. Taking into account other seminal themes existent both in Slayer’s lyrics and, to a certain extent, in Hegel’s philosophy – like evil, criminality, scepticism and nihilism, besides the already mentioned religion and war, the article tries to introduce possible common grounds between these two radically different continents, arguing that Hegel’s dialectical method can be successfully extended also to apparently ‘exotic’ themes, as Slayer’s phenomenology, among many others.

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2019-03-01
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